Teaching Assistant

Catcliffe Primary School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 5SW

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  21 April 2025

• Closing date

  28 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  7 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £9,339.00 Annually (Actual) Fixed term until 31/08/2025. 16.25 hours per week term-time

Teaching Assistant job summary

As a Teaching Assistant you will play a vital role in supporting the education and well-being of pupils, working closely with teachers to create an engaging and inclusive learning environment.

This role is ideal for someone who is caring, compassionate, and patient, with a genuine passion for helping children reach their full potential. You will be working under the guidance of teaching staff to assist pupils with their learning, whether on a one-to-one basis, in small groups, or within the whole classroom setting. Your support will help to ensure that all students, including those with additional needs, are given the opportunity to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. The role may also involve providing pastoral care, assisting with behaviour management, and supporting children with special educational needs (SEN). You will contribute to classroom activities, prepare learning resources, and help create a positive and structured learning environment. This is a rewarding and fulfilling position where you will make a real difference in the lives of young learners by helping them build confidence, independence, and essential skills for the future.

Context

The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.
We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.
Why do we exist?
Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future
Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect.
How will we act?
We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;
Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)
Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)
Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)
Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)
Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)
Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)
Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)
What is our strategy?
We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;
Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools
Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity
Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children
Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation
In return we offer being part of a friendly team who value our staff members and are a hardworking and enthusiastic team with the desire and skills to improve outcomes.
As a Trust we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Catcliffe Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 155 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Catcliffe Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/catcliffe-primary-school

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